Figure 3

Reaction schemes of the allosteric two-state model, ATSM, and the extended operational model, EXOM. Panel A. The ATSM. Panel B. The EXOM. The models are presented with their basic simpler reactions schemes as the cTSM and TCM from Figure 2. The cubic ATSM has eight receptor conformations while the EXOM only has seven of those, as the spontaneous active represented by receptor conformation R* is excluded. The two models have the same total number of parameters, seven in all. Besides parameters defined in Figure 2, ATSM and EXOM have parameter b, an efficacy constant when the alloster M-bound receptor is activated, and parameter d a cooperativity efficacy constant involving two ligands. The constants L, A _s, A _m , a and c are given as in Figure 2, and EXOM has a slope factor n, not shown.